Category: Quote of the Day

“’We love death more than you love life.’ This is civilization’s ultimate challenge. Will the lovers of death and destruction overwhelm and defeat those who love life and have created great civilizations that celebrate human creativity and achievement? Will all that is left of three thousand years of human civilization be reduced to rubble and a mindless religio-ideological lockstep? The Islamic State is not just a challenge to Judeo-Christian Western civilization. It is a challenge to civilization itself–to the very idea of civilization. And that is why it is doomed to fail. Life will always conquer death in the end. …

“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” – St. Anthony the Great

“Do not wait for a national audience. Speak on any scale open to you, large or small—to your friends, your associates, your professional organizations, or any legitimate public forum. You can never tell when your words will reach the right mind at the right time. You will see no immediate results—but it is of such activities that public opinion is made.” – Ayn Rand

“In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est præparatio diligens.” (In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.) – Cicero, De Officiis  (“On Duties”) (44 B.C.)

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” – James 4:7 (KJV)

“Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all riches.” – Epicurus, Fragment 70

“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.” – Rod Serling, (creator of The Twilight Zone) in a speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” – – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“If you are in a church where the pastor refuses to teach the truth and take a stand, why do you stay there?” – Pastor Chuck Baldwin on churches having the answer to our current moral decline.

“It is sadly ironic that Americans are presently rushing to buy battle rifles, not so much because they fear terrorist attacks on their communities as much as they fear the depredations of our own legislators–our supposed ‘representatives’–in the District of Criminals.” – James Wesley, Rawles

“What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.” Acts 21:22-24 (KJV)

“And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.” – Judges 13:1 (KJV)

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” – Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the Next War

“Every day above earth is a good day.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea